Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. On the other hand, PLG companies are introducing sales teams and processes to deal with being pulled upmarket as their existing customers grow. .

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For the fifth year running, we’ve recognized five customer success teams who achieved remarkable results in one of five categoriesonboarding, adoption, renewals and expansion, advocacy, and innovation. The Ollie team reimagined the process, using ChurnZero to structure and systemize their onboarding and keep customers on track.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? Re-segmenting your customer base is a natural evolution of your company, product, and team’s growth. We also had to think about how we were doing their variable compensation to incent fairness across the team.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. This is something that I’m doing with fractional headcount allocation. Now we have a name for this.

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User Pilot

MAY 11, 2022

You can use product usage data to develop an effective marketing strategy, improve products, retain customers , as well as to accelerate customer adoption. Request a personal demo with the Userpilot team, and see how one tool can provide all the data you need for successful customer segmentation. H3 Improve customer retention rate.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Revenue Operations (RevOps) is a business function that focuses on maximizing revenue by aligning the teams that directly impact the bottom line. … Or, simply put, it’s a connecting link between your sales, marketing, and customer success teams. But as your company scales, relying on headcount growth alone won’t cut it.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is an overnight sensation that’s been years in the making. During one of our BIG RYG Hyper-Workshops on budgeting for Customer Success headcount, Kristen Hayer of The Success League, framed this shift by explaining that as a CS leader, you’re not running a happiness team, you’re running a revenue team.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As Customer Success as a discipline has grown, it has also developed an accompaniment of misconceptions and myths, generating a lot of confusion about how to do it right and scale successfully. Myth #2: A high Net Promoter Score (NPS) = high customer retention. Customer Success Management: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. They’re the proactive team. Revenue retention is super important.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. They’re the proactive team. Revenue retention is super important.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open-source communities typically fall into one of two buckets: user communities or developer communities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote. Kieron: Interesting.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

They know there’s 5 individuals with semi-automatic weapons in the car, SWAT team responds, and those people are now in jail. Bad guys know that when you come to Las Vegas, because of our abilities, technology being at the forefront of it, you are going to get caught. They got defeated, quite frankly, oftentimes by the bad guy.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2025

It seems obvious: focus brings team unity and compounds the impact of everyone’s work. It seems obvious: focus brings team unity and compounds the impact of everyone’s work. Typically, it outlines the industry, headcount, revenue, tech stack, location, and buying behavior of your hypothetical “ideal customer.”

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Why executive compensation should align with key business metrics for better team alignment. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2025

At the time, expansion and upsell were handled by the CS team, whose primary focus was retention and customer success, not sales. The fix: moving upsell and expansion to a dedicated sales team. While aggressive hiring can be tempting, a learning from Levelsets growth was the importance of hiring for leverage, not headcount.

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